Healing war-torn, broken, and economically devastated communities through art. [Lily] Yeh is the founder of — and force behind — Barefoot Artists, an organization that revitalizes neighborhoods around the globe through the transformative power of art. In Palestine, that meant working with villagers to create a wall mural that Yeh calls “The Palestinian Tree of [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Art’
Beauty in Broken Places
Posted in Articles & Essays, tagged Art, healing on May 2, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Beauty on All Sides of Us
Posted in Images, tagged Art, earth, nature on January 20, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The Earth is an artist
Whoever or Whatever Created All This Is Definitely an Artist
Posted in Images, Web Sites, tagged Art, earth, nature on January 13, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Earth as Art Earth as Art 2
Sometimes Illusions Are Beautiful
Posted in Images, tagged Art, illusion, kurt wenner on September 16, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Uncanny chalk murals by street artist Kurt Wenner
Making Ordinary Things Sing and Dance
Posted in Images, Videos, tagged Art, robotics, shopping carts on July 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Creative use of shopping carts
Art Is a Necessity, Not a Luxury
Posted in Articles & Essays, tagged Art, community, sustainability on November 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“Reclaiming the Body as Home” by NalaWalla The arts must be restored to their central role in community life if we are to achieve the goal of sustainable living.
Beauty from Dirt
Posted in Art, Videos, tagged Art, graffiti on July 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Reverse Graffiti
Towards a New Spirituality in Art
Posted in Articles & Essays, Web Sites, tagged Art, modernism, remodernism on April 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“The Remodernist Manifesto” by Billy Childish and Charles Thomson post at shwing.com remodernism page on myspace We don’t need more dull, boring, brainless destruction of convention . . . We need an art that integrates body and soul and recognizes enduring and underlying principles which have sustained wisdom and insight throughout humanity’s history.
Towards a New Spirituality in Poetry
Posted in Articles & Essays, tagged Art, karma, Poetry, postmodern on April 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“The Kosmic Karma of an Integral Poet” by Paul Lonely Dear postmodern and contemporary artists of the world: You’re trying too hard. Most of you seem to be dead set on becoming the next ‘mad genius.’ And, quite frankly, it’s cliché . . . It’s high time for a group of integral artists to transcend [...]
Pronoiac Poetics 1
Posted in Articles & Essays, tagged Art, artist, pessimism on March 5, 2008 | 1 Comment »
“The Poet’s Dilemma” by Daniel Pinchbeck Dear Daniel: I too feel that poets and artists need to move into a new real realm beyond alienation and pessimism . . . [but] what is an artist supposed to do? You can only write the visions that come to you. You can’t consciously ‘steer’ the material into [...]
Public Art
Posted in Art, tagged Art, murals, public art, san francisco on December 26, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
The murals of Clarion Street in San Francisco
